A story told for seven years in real time is going to be filled with tiny random incidents that you would never, ever put into a book, like Sally-Anne getting her first period in Myrtle's loo and having to appeal for help and getting a sanitary pad delivered by -- of all people -- Padma. That was hilarious and random and never had any larger significance, other than showing that even Padma would show at least that much feminine solidarity.
But there were other random little incidents that we revisited later and decided did have larger significance. Ron Weasley got cast as Mad Moody's Mad Cat in the school play, refused to die when he was supposed to, which Arista Selwyn thought was hysterically funny. We built on that during the QWC bombing, where Ron encounters Arista while she's missing and keeps her calm and safe until she can be reclaimed by her parents. We built on that further by saying that after that, her parents got her a tracking bracelet; she also gave Ron her stuffed toy cat to comfort him after Arthur's death, and the cat and the bracelet came into play when our characters needed to find Arista in the Department of Mysteries...
You could pick a single person and tell their story in a series of books, but the sweep of all of it, there's no way.
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Date: 2015-09-03 01:39 am (UTC)A story told for seven years in real time is going to be filled with tiny random incidents that you would never, ever put into a book, like Sally-Anne getting her first period in Myrtle's loo and having to appeal for help and getting a sanitary pad delivered by -- of all people -- Padma. That was hilarious and random and never had any larger significance, other than showing that even Padma would show at least that much feminine solidarity.
But there were other random little incidents that we revisited later and decided did have larger significance. Ron Weasley got cast as Mad Moody's Mad Cat in the school play, refused to die when he was supposed to, which Arista Selwyn thought was hysterically funny. We built on that during the QWC bombing, where Ron encounters Arista while she's missing and keeps her calm and safe until she can be reclaimed by her parents. We built on that further by saying that after that, her parents got her a tracking bracelet; she also gave Ron her stuffed toy cat to comfort him after Arthur's death, and the cat and the bracelet came into play when our characters needed to find Arista in the Department of Mysteries...
You could pick a single person and tell their story in a series of books, but the sweep of all of it, there's no way.